Swisscontact was present during the forum with a delegation including members from its Indonesia team and its Laos team. Swisscontact actively contributed to the success of the forum with inputs in a panel discussion on cross-border private sector collaboration, with a presentation on the branding of Southern Laos, with its own booth providing information about Swisscontact’s tourism programme in ASEAN and with a key note presentation to the plenary on public-private collaboration for sustainable destination management.
The forum intended to profile the importance of Eco-Tourism within ASEAN at aimed at strengthening cross-border tourism and ASEAN eco-tourism clusters. One of the key outputs of the forum was the adoption of the Pakse declaration for the strategic development of eco-tourism clusters.